Community ideas in landscape architecture

Thompson uses the word 'community' to encompass
'the social mission of landscape architecture' [a modern parallel to the Vitruvian quality of 'commodity']. The idea is traced from
the functional stream of modernism, remembering that 'the international
style made a virtue out of disregard for climate, culture and site'. The
legacy of functionalism in landscape architecture is an enthusiasm for
collaborative planning, participatory design, public participation, design
charettes, planning for real, design games, focus groups and community
forums.